Why Buy a Graphing Calculator?
...their calculators. Test-prep resources — Find libraries full of practice questions and exam aids, including tips and tricks that help students save test time and avoid mistakes. Tutorials — The answers here cover common questions across various subjects, such ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/why-buy-graphing-calculator
Top Tips From a Science Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...day of the exam. Try to reduce distractions, and time yourself to get a feeling of what it will be like on test day. Sit down with what you need: snacks, water, scratch paper, pen/pencil, formula sheets and a calculator. If you do not have a calculator at home, you can download software for the T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/scienceapexams
How To Avoid 5 Common Grant Writing Mistakes | Texas Instruments
...ore, you can even take your revised proposal and submit it to other funders. (Keeping in mind to remember mistake #2, follow directions, and make tweaks as needed.) Basically, There's no excuse for not writing a grant. When it’s all said and done, it never hurts to try. You’ll learn, grow ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-common-grant-writing-mistakes
Earth Day Engineering | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...heds. To further tie in single-use plastics, the students had to build their model using only single-use plastics that they collected over several weeks. A 60-second public service announcement (PSA) would also be developed during the two-week-long project. We used TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/earthday_engineering
Get Students Excited About Linear Equations | Texas Instruments
...s (one per three students) • 10 Ultrasonic Ranger Modules (one per three students) • 10 paper towel tubes • 10 scissors • 10 popsicle sticks • Masking tape or hot glue • Hole puncher • Cardstock or manila folder • Circle sheet (in teacher activity guide PDF) Note: To sav...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/get-students-excited-about-linear-equations
Forensics Case 8 - No Dumping: Using soil characteristics to link suspects to a crime scene
In this activity, students measure pH, conductivity, and water absorbency of different samples of soil. They use these characteristic properties to identify soil samples. They use the physical and chemical characteristics of soil samples collected from suspects to determine whether a suspect had ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-8--no-dumping-using-soil-characteristics-to-link-suspects-to-a-crime-scene
Forensics Case 5 - The Ink Is Still Wet: Using colorimetry to identify an unknown ink
In this activity, students identify the ink of a ransom note to match suspects. They identify an unknown ink by its light absorbance characteristics. The experiment set up used is to measure a solutions absorbance of different colors (wavelengths) of light.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-5--the-ink-is-still-wet-using-colorimetry-to-identify-an-unknown-ink
Forensics Case 3 - Name That Tune: Matching musical tones through waveform analysis
In this activity, students analyze sound waves to calculate the frequency or pitch of musical notes. They use a Microphone to detect the waveform of a musical note. Students calculate the frequency of a musical note from the period of its waveform and use this knowledge to identify the musical n...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-3--name-that-tune-matching-musical-tones-through-waveform-analysis
Expanding -- Using CAS
This is a group work activity that allows students to use the CAS capabilities of the TI-Nspire to explore patterns emerging from the product of two binomials.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/expanding--using-cas
Similar Figures - Using Ratios to Discover Properties
Students will explore similar triangles and set up ratios to discover properties of similar triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/similar-figures--using-ratios-to-discover-properties
Putting limits on Pi
This activity has the students calculate the perimeter of inscribed and circumscribed regular polygons about a circle and then use the calculated values to determine pi.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/putting-limits-on-pi
Transformational Puppet
This activity allows students to practice their skills of reflecting on a line and translating on a vector. The instructions don't ask for creativity but students who finish early can enjoy being creative with this activity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transformational-puppet
"Picking" Your Way Through Area Problems
Students will discover Pick's Theorem by finding the relationship between area and the number of boundary points and interior points of a lattice polygon.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/picking-your-way-through-area-problems
Cyclic Quadrilaterals
Students will explore cyclic quadrilaterals and their properties.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cyclic-quadrilaterals_2
Construction of the Lute of Pythagoras to investigate polynomials
The student will construct the Lute of Pythagoras and investigate the many geometric shapes created.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/construction-of-the-lute-of-pythagoras-to-investigate-polynomials
Are all Constructions Created Equal?
This activity is designed to give preservice teachers an introduction to the circle, compass and line tools in the Graphs & Geometry application of the TI-NSpire. The set of four investigations are designed to provide them with ideas on how to assess geometric constructions by identifying the dif...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/are-all-constructions-created-equal
Medians in a Triangle
Students will study medians and some of their properties. A median of a triangle connects a vertex of the triangle with the midpoint of the opposite side.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/medians-in-a-triangle
The Lunes of Hippocrates
In this activity the students discover a property of this historical figure.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-lunes-of-hippocrates
TI-84 Plus CE Guidebooks
5.8 TI-84 Plus CE TI-84 Plus CE Guidebooks TI-84 Plus CE TI-84 Plus CE websitehttps://education.ti.com/en/guidebook/details/en/3BBF042421644CE2AF713484B03A8B11/ti-84-plus-ce
TI-84 Plus CE Python Guidebooks
5.8 TI-84 Plus CE Python TI-84 Plus CE Python Guidebooks TI-84 Plus CE Python TI-84 Plus CE Python websitehttps://education.ti.com/en/guidebook/details/en/1424CF4F539A4DBB9145E2AA89F0FF54/ti-84-plus-ce-python
How far do you live from school?
Prior to this activity students determine how far they live from school and how long it takes them to get to school. They analyze this data using various types of graphs and draw conclusions regarding the relationship between time and distance. They also look at zip codes and explore factors that...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/how-far-do-you-live-from-school
Printing Your Own Books - is it more cost effective?
In this activity, students will create functions based on real-life scenarios, fill out a table of values, and critically analyze characteristics of graphs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/printing-books
Similarity with Shadows
Students use the measurement of their height/shadows and similar triangles to find the height of tall objects.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/similarity-with-shadows
We've Got You Covered: 2D Area
This lesson involves using the geometry tools to measure the area of two-dimensional shapes from the faces of three-dimensional objects they see in pictures taken outside of the classroom.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/weve-got-you-covered-2d-area
German Tanks: Exploring Sampling Distributions
In this lesson, students will estimate the largest number of a population based on random samples from the population, as statisticians did in WWII.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/german-tanks-exploring-sampling-distributions